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Have you thought about Petanque<br />
Petanque has virtually no age or gender<br />
restrictions and people take only 10 to<br />
15 minutes to be shown the basics of<br />
the game. A purpose built playing area<br />
is not necessary—teams often persuade<br />
local pubs to temporarily give up a<br />
section of a gravelled car park, which<br />
makes a suitable playing surface.<br />
Teams are made up of 4 to 8 players,<br />
and the registration fee is only £12<br />
per team for the season. Matches are<br />
played roughly every 3 weeks, from<br />
April to September. Leagues are based<br />
upon location rather than ability and<br />
limited to 6 teams per division. This<br />
means a team has, at the most, 10<br />
matches to play over 6 months.<br />
Late Sunday mornings are the preferred<br />
‘kick-off’ times, and with<br />
matches lasting around 90 minutes,<br />
venues are then usually open by 12<br />
o’clock, allowing after-match refreshments<br />
and socialising.<br />
Teams can be family, friends, pub and<br />
club teams or teams that we ‘mould together’<br />
from isolated persons who just<br />
want to get involved, such as the Deben<br />
Vikings team, where we got 6 strangers<br />
together playing at Woodbridge.<br />
A walk on the wild side<br />
An ‘I’m a Good Dog!’ walk at Orwell<br />
Country Park at 1pm on Sunday<br />
10 th <strong>January</strong> launches a campaign to<br />
promote responsible dog ownership<br />
in Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of<br />
Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).<br />
The walk is part of a campaign to<br />
highlight the need for responsible dog<br />
ownership. It follows research that dog<br />
owners were unaware of their responsibilities<br />
under Open Access regulations<br />
on Sandlings heaths.<br />
The message is that responsible dog<br />
owners are very welcome in the Suffolk<br />
Coast and Heaths AONB. Uncontrolled<br />
dogs have a significant negative<br />
impact on wildlife, and on the AONB<br />
landscape but, by working closely with<br />
dog owners, our conservation partners,<br />
local land owners and managers, we<br />
hope to promote solutions that will be<br />
pro-responsibility, rather than anti-dog.<br />
The walk is free of charge. Meet at the<br />
Bridge Wood Car Park, Orwell Country<br />
Park, Ipswich IP8 3SL, (Grid reference,<br />
TM134427) Tel: 01473 692690.<br />
If you are interested, contact League<br />
Co-Ordinator, Mr Simon Fletcher at 18<br />
Melville Road, Ipswich, IP4 1PN or e-<br />
mail him at imogenlewiskira@sky.com<br />
Registration closes at the end of February<br />
2010.<br />
<strong>January</strong> 2010 page <br />
www.<strong>villagevoices</strong>.<strong>org</strong>.<strong>uk</strong>
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